Martin Ellrodt was born in 1966 and has been working for a couple of years as an actor and pupeteer before he discovered storytelling as his real vocation in 1991. The Celtic bards serve him as example: seven years they learned how to make people laugh by playing the harp, seven years they learned how to make them cry, and another seven years they learned how to lull them to sleep. He thinks a storyteller should be able to do likewise.

Meanwhile the following activities and topics have been covered:

Telling stories from oral tradition (myths, folktales, legends).

Re-telling world literature (Shakespeare, Cervantes, Ovid).

Performing in three languages: German, English
and Spanish, also at festivals in Croatia, the Netherlands, Portugal,
Spain, Hong Kong, Senegal, Egypt, Belarus, Canada, Israel...